Why Weren’t We Told?: A Personal Search For The Truth About Our History
Viking $24.95pb, 264 pp
Why Weren’t We Told?: A Personal Search For The Truth About Our History by Henry Reynolds
In November 1998, the Governor General, Sir William Deane, found himself in the centre of a storm over the commemoration of Australia’s Aboriginal dead. Launching historian Ken Inglis’s Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Sir William remarked that in a country of more than 4,000 memorials there were none, at least of an official kind, to the Aborigines who had been slaughtered in the ‘Black Wars’ of the colonial period.
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Why Weren’t We Told?: A Personal Search For The Truth About Our History
by Henry Reynolds
Viking $24.95pb, 264 pp
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